Thaddeus H. Caraway

Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (17 October 1871-6 November 1931) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-AR 1) from 4 March 1913 to 3 March 1921 (succeeding Robert B. Macon and preceding William J. Driver, and a US Senator from Arkansas from 4 March 1921 to 6 November 1931 (succeeding William F. Kirby and preceding Hattie Caraway).

Biography
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway was born in Springhill, Missouri in 1871, the son of a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War who was murdered when Thaddeus was six months old. He worked as a teacher and lawyer before settling in Arkansas in 1900, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1913 to 1921 and in the US Senate from 1921 to 1931, serving as a Democratic Party member. He was a progressive and a reformer in the US Congress, and he worked for laws requiring disclosure of activities by lobbyists. He supported American entrance into the League of Nations, bonuses for World War I veterans, Prohibition, women's suffrage, the adoption of 20 January as the beginning and ending of the president and vice-president's terms (replacing 4 March), and a bill to prohibit African-Americans from joining the military. He died in office in 1931, and his widow Hattie Caraway succeeded him.